The criticisms that have ensued revolve around the historical accuracy of the spawn rate of female generals versus the actual number of female leaders historically, although none of the players have posted any evidence of subsequent patches or updates to confirm the likelihood of female generals appearing has increased since their initial introduction six months ago.

"Total War games are historically authentic, not historically accurate - if having female units upsets you that much you can either mod them out or just not play," McConnell said. "People saying they won't buy the game because there are too many women in it is fine with us - if that's their reason, we'd rather they didn't anyway."

The devs have confirmed "there have been no changes to the recruitable female general spawn rates," but that the Family Tree feature could result in "more female family members via marriage."

The change of female characters appearing as recruitable generals for some factions is between 10% and 15%. Greek states, Rome, Carthage, and "some Eastern factions" have a 0% chance, while Kush has a 50% chance. All of these stats, "represent the cultural differences in those factions during the time the game is set."

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Creative Assembly went on to say those figures can be modded by players, and have confirmed that there are no bugs scuppering up the percentage chance at this time.

"We have no plans to patch this out or remove this feature from the game," the statement finished.